Missouri · Nonprofit
Wildlife Rescue Center
Wildlife Rescue Center (Missouri) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,230 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($139,792). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $773k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $590k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Wildlife Rescue Center does
Mission
The Wildlife Rescue Center rehabilitates injured, sick and orphaned native wildlife and releases healthy animals to their natural habitat. Through educational outreach, the center provides environmental awareness, promotes a harmonious relationship with native wildlife, and encourages the community to protect our delicate ecosystems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the Wildlife Rescue Center admitted 3,523 injured, orphaned, and sick animal patients representing 87 species of missouri wildlife. Patients were presented by more than 2,400 individuals from 39 missouri counties. The center responded to over 25,000 requests from the public to provide program services and expert advice on wildlife-related issues. The Wildlife Rescue Center fulfilled its mission with the help of approximately 150 volunteers contributing 17,270 hours of service.
$441,101 spent$15,069 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $441,101.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $1.7M (+18%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
97% of Wildlife Rescue Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kimberli Rutledge
Executive director
Board chair
Patrick Kane
Director, chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $30k → $100k.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Wildlife Rescue Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Wildlife Rescue Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Wildlife Rescue Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 52% · 2019 35% · 2020 38% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
35% of Wildlife Rescue Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of Wildlife Rescue Center's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $212k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $378k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Wildlife Rescue Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Wildlife Rescue Center
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Wildlife Rescue Center?
- Wildlife Rescue Center (Missouri) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,230 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($139,792). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wildlife Rescue Center have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $590,230 in grants to Wildlife Rescue Center, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wildlife Rescue Center?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $139,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wildlife Rescue Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing